Joshua Leinsdorf
Josh was born in New Rochelle, New York on
October 19, 1945. He attended public schools in Larchmont and
Rochester, New York, graduating from Brookline High School in Brookline,
Massachusetts. At graduation, Josh was awarded a Certificate of
Merit from The Mathematics Club of the University of Massachusetts in its
Annual High School Prize Examination. He then attended Columbia College in New
York City as a Physics Major. Josh is not a lawyer.
Leinsdorf has been together with his wife, Mary Blohm,
for 51 years. They have one adult child. Josh has spent most of his working
life first in government in New York's Economic Development Administration
Department of Ports and Terminals and then in education.
Josh was elected to Community School Board #3
in Manhattan in 1970 and the Princeton Regional School Board in 2000. Josh
served nine years on the board’s Finance Committee, two years as Chairman.
A lifelong independent, Josh has been working
on independent campaigns since 1969. He has seen and experienced every crooked
shenanigan the two-party system has to
offer. Josh was a poll worker for 25 years.
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